rampaged; rampaging
: to rush wildly about
: a course of violent, riotous, or reckless action or behavior
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Verb
Rioters rampaged through the streets of the city.
Noun
some crazy guy went on a rampage in the public library and started grabbing books off the shelves and tossing them around
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Tom Segev, Foreign Affairs, 23 Apr. 2024
The Israel-Hamas war, now in its seventh month, began after Hamas militants breached Israel’s border defenses on Oct. 7, 2023, rampaged through communities unchallenged for hours, killing about 1,200 people, most of them civilians, while taking roughly 250 hostages back to Gaza.
—Sierra Lopez, The Mercury News, 23 Apr. 2024
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Verb
Thousands of heavily armed Hamas fighters managed to break through the Gaza Strip’s fortified border and into Israel, rampaging unimpeded for hours, destroying several villages, and committing gruesome acts of brutality before Israeli forces could regain control.
—Tom Segev, Foreign Affairs, 23 Apr. 2024
The Israel-Hamas war, now in its seventh month, began after Hamas militants breached Israel’s border defenses on Oct. 7, 2023, rampaged through communities unchallenged for hours, killing about 1,200 people, most of them civilians, while taking roughly 250 hostages back to Gaza.
—Sierra Lopez, The Mercury News, 23 Apr. 2024
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“Rampage.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rampage. Accessed 4 May. 2024.
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rampage
2 of 2 noun
ram·page
ˈram-ˌpāj 
: a course of violent or reckless action or behavior
rampageously
adverb
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